Unfortunately, with the launch of the 2018 Macbook pro model, you can no longer purchase a brand new 2015 15-inch Retina Macbook Pro from Apple. Up until yesterday, you could purchase a brand new mid-2015 15-inch Macbook Pro, with fully maxed out specs (note that in the past year Apple removed the option to add a dedicated AMD Radeon R9 M370X GPU to the mid-2015 Macbook Pro), for just a little more than the low-end base model of the 2017 Touch Bars. Even what the Retina Macbook Pro was missing, an internal CD/DVD Superdrive for example, was a well-timed move in response to where the industry was in terms of the lifecycle of that specific technology.Įven with last year’s 2017 Touch Bar Macbook Pro roll out replacing the original 2016 Touch Bar model, Apple kept the mid-2015 15-inch Retina Macbook Pro in stock to satiate those who believed it to be the last great Macbook Pro model.
This Macbook Pro model was heralded for its sleek design, light weight, fast processing power, its array of ports ranging from HDMI to two Thunderbolt ports, and MagSafe power adapter among other things. This model was continuously updated and upgraded with the latest specs until May 2015 with the mid-2015 model. No terrible butterfly keyboard here! Credit: Getty Imagesīefore Steve Jobs passed away in 2011, he was involved in the design (Opens in a new tab) of the Retina Macbook Pro line of Apple computers that came out 8 months later in June of 2012. The sentiments shared in his post about the 15-inch Retina Macbook Pro model – titled “The best laptop ever made” – were echoed (Opens in a new tab) across (Opens in a new tab) the web (Opens in a new tab).
Arment argued that the entire 2012-2015 Retina Macbook Pro model was the best laptop Apple ever created, with the mid-2015 one being its peak. In November of last year, Marco Arment, the co-founder of Tumblr and developer behind popular apps like Instapaper and Overcast, wrote a post (Opens in a new tab) that spread like wildfire, expressing how many Macbook Pro users felt when Apple announced the new Touch Bar model with its 2016 Macbook Pro refresh. (opens in a new tab) (Opens in a new tab) Apple removed the mid-2015 15-inch Retina Macbook Pro model (Opens in a new tab) from its online store, officially killing off what some consider to be the best laptop ever made. The company really souped-up the specs of the latest Macbook Pro model, the one that debuted in 2016 with the controversial butterfly keyboard, 4 sole USB-C ports, and Touch Bar in place of the function keys.Īs Apple updated its website with the newest additions to the Macbook Pro family, something just as noteworthy came to light. Today, Apple announced a big update to its Macbook Pro line of computers.
In loving memory of the mid-2015 15-inch Retina Macbook Pro:.
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